The life expectancy in 1900 was just 47 years.
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In 2011, a couple bought a box of textbooks for $10. Inside, they found a 25-cent bill signed by the president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, and subsequently sold it for $63,250.
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Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War.
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A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose!
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In 2011, archaeologists discovered the skeletal remains of a Roman couple who have been holding hands for 1,500 years.
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During the 1600's, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.
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Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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